TechFlow reported on November 20 that, according to Scam Sniffer monitoring, a user fell victim to a phishing attack while copying a transaction history address, mistakenly transferring $129 million in USDT to a hacker's address. The fraudulent address carried out the scam by mimicking the initial and final characters of the legitimate address.
Scam Sniffer reminds users to carefully verify the complete address, use the address book feature, conduct small test transactions before large transfers, and never directly copy and paste addresses from transaction history when making cryptocurrency transfers.
According to Yu Xian, founder of SlowMist, the hacker returned 90% of the funds within one hour of receiving them, and the remaining 10% was returned within the following four hours.
